Author's Note
Thanks to everyone who submitted characters for this. I have now chosen twelve girls who will compete. I received a surprising 35 girls for this. From there I whittled down a short list of twenty-one and had to further cut it down to the final twelve chosen. I loved a lot of characters submitted so this was very tough. I even made a couple last minute changes to the cast whilst writing this. So sorry if your female characters didn't get in, I liked most of them.
Chris is sat on one side of a long desk in a spacious but sparsely decorated office. A glamorous blonde woman sits next to him, dressed all in red. On the other side of her is a handsome brown haired man, dressed much more casually. All three are growing more impatient by the second as they sit across from an empty chair on the other side of the desk. Their wait is finally over as another familiar blonde enters and hastily makes her way to the seat opposite.
"Sorry to keep you waiting but this shouldn't take long anyway." Karen says as she gets comfy in her seat.
"Well if it won't take long, why have us meet in the first place?" The woman in red asks. " Couldn't this have been a business call?"
"I'm sorry Blaineley, but you know how things get with information like this." Karen gives a Blaineley an unsympathetic shrug as she speaks.
"Information like what?" The casually dressed man asks.
"I'm glad you asked, Don." Karen reaches into her bag and spends some time shuffling around. The other three lean over a little to see what she is getting. "Information like this." She finally answers, pulling up a hefty pile of paper folders and dropping them on the table with a thud. She alligns the stack whilst the trio look on in surprise.
"What are we looking at here?" Chris asks, giving an unamused glance at the large stack.
"This, my dear host" Karen begins. "Is a collection of everything we know about the twelve girls competing."
"Twelve?" Don gives quizzical look to the producer in front of him. "Shouldn't it be eleven of each?"
"That's correct, Don. There was going to be a total of twenty-two contestants but after some complicated discussions the execs decided twenty-four was a 'cooler' number". Karen explains.
"I had no idea how many there were going to be." Chris states, looking a little puzzled.
"Of course you didn't, McLean." Don says, glancing at the less professional man who gives a nonchalant shrug in return.
"I have a copy of every girl's file for each of you. You are going to need to eat, sleep and breathe these kid's personal information." Karen explains. "In the least creepy and most appropriate way possible." She adds.
"Homework!?" Chris groans. "I don't need to know this stuff, I'm not interviewing them."
"No, but if you know things about them you can garner challenges and twists around that to maximise the drama potential." Karen somewhat reluctantly adds.
"We don't need to know too much about them though, right?" Don asks. "Surely they'll tell is what we need to know in their interviews."
"Oh please, Don." Blaineley chuckles at her soon to be co-host. "This isn't your garden variety singing competition hug fest. They aren't going to spill their guts out for sympathy. We need squeeze it out of these brats." She wrings her hands together to add emphasis. Don reluctantly sits back in his chair as Karen hands each host identical files.
"So how come it's just the girls?" Don questions.
"We're having some complications with the boys but the casting directors going ahead with these ladies for certain." Karen answers as all three of the people opposite her look down at the files labelled "Elsa Lombardi" and open them.
"This is Elsa the Italian." Karen begins. Inside the file is a photo of a petite tanned girl with green eyes and a black shattered bob sitting on a couch with a game controller in her hands. She is wearing a partially unbuttoned baggy yet thin navy blue long-sleeved overshirt with streaks of red on top of a lilac tee. On her lower half are a pair of baggy black cargo pants with white streaks that devorated the outer legs and some navy-blue and purple high tops just visible in frame. "She's the daughter of Luigi Lombardi."
"The opera singer?" Don pipes up, clearly impressed.
"The very same." Karen says, pointing out another picture in the file of said opera singing father with Elsa.
"Never heard of him." Chris shrugs as Don and Blaineley simultaneously roll their eyes.
"She's gonna be a nice quiet girl for audiences to sympathise with and were hoping she'll draw in gamers with her interests." The shorter haired blonde summarises some of the key points in the file. "But you'll have to learn about her in your own time." She hands out the next files. "Moving on..."
The next files have "Tori Katie Trimble" on the front. Inside is a photo of a tall, somewhat skinny, tan girl on a stage that is in the process of being set up. A serious look is on her face, with her brow furrowed over her brown eyes and her black hair neatly tied back in a ponytail. She's wearing a red sweater with matching red shoes and a pair of smart navy blue dress pants. A blue cell phone is tightly gripped in her right hand.
"Tori is our resident business woman." Karen says. "She's pretty by the book and goal oriented. A real 'work first and play later' type. She manages her friend's up and coming, emphasis on the coming, singing career."
"Ugh boring. Hopefully her being a downer will at least give us some drama." Blaineley complains to no one in particular.
The next files are handed out with the name "Marlene Cahill Tulip" on the front. Inside the file is a photo of Marlene stood in the middle of a forest clearing. The fairly tall light brown skinned girl has dark eyes and dark brown waist-length hair in a ponytail. She is wearing a green blouse, dark brown jeans, black shoes and a white collar around her neck.
"This chick's Australian?" Chris asks, skimming his way through the file.
"Yeah, we got a lot of international applications, actually." Karen points out. "Marlene's a naturist, also known as a total hippy. Her parents brought her up on some real coo coo stuff. She's less extreme but still..." She trails off as she hands the out the next set of files, titled "Erica Allison Greene".
Inside the file is a photo of a shortish black girl sat with at a skatepark with a skateboard on her lap. Her eyes are a dark brown and her black hair is medium length with it becoming gradually longer from left to right. Erica is wearing a black sleeveless crop top with a red plaid flannel shirt tied around her waist, some black skinny jeans that are ripped around the left knee and some black army boots with purple laces. She has a bejewelled stud in her belly button, a plain silver stud in her right nostril and matching silver studs in both ears.
"Erica is the skater. She's into the usual punk stuff, nothing special but we think she could be strong in challenges." Karen says.
"Well I hope the next one will be bad them." Chris snickers. "Now that would be fun to see." He adds with a sinister smile.
"Quite the opposite, Chris." Karen smiles and passes out the files with "Wyonetta Wilfred" written on them. "This girl's the hockey player and one of the biggest physical threats."
They open the files to see a photo of Wyonetta with hockey equipment by the side of an ice rink. She is a Filipino Canadian standing at an average height with a muscular body. Her dark eyes resemble her long black hair. She wears her purple hockey jersey with the numbers zero and nine on the back, a pair of black yoga pants and some white sneakers.
"It says here she doesn't play too well with others." Don says, pointing at some information in the sheet.
"She plays a team sport but we're banking on her being brutal with her teammates." The producer explains.
"Well that's something, I guess." Chris admits as he crosses his arms and Helen places the next set of files in front of the group. These ones are titled "Beatrice Kilmer".
"This is Bea, she's a mermaid." Helen says in a dry tone.
"You mean she thinks she's a mermaid? What a loser!" Chris laughs as he opens the file.
"No, she's one of those people that dresses up as one and performs." Helen corrects Chris.
"Honey, that's no better." Blaineley sighs as she also opens her folder. Inside is a photo of a tall and slender white woman sitting by the side of a pool with her feet dipped into the water. She has bright pink bowl styled hair and striking pale blue eyes. She is wearing a pink sleeveless and shoulderless pink top that shows off her tattoo of a spring blue water dragon on her upper left arm, as well as her ear-bells, bracelets and necklace. All pink of course. She also wears blue denim cargo shorts and has some bunched up white socks and pink sneakers with white laces placed next to her.
"Well I think she's creative and fun." Don gives a cheery smile to the group.
"Of course you do." Blaineley gives him a disgusted look whilst Karen hands out the next files, all of which are labelled "Laila Ruby Calloway". Inside the file is a photo of Laila posing outside a mansion by the beach, showing off her long legs and light brown hourglass shaped body. Her hair is blonde with reddish streaks and is fairly long with barely visible brown roots and her eyes are a gorgeously bright blue. She is showing off her outfit of a gold dress that reaches just above the knees with a bow tied around the waist, black thigh-high socks, silver-studded Mary Janes, a long golden necklace, two matching amethyst rings and a pale pink wool coat.
"Laila's a sheltered snob. She's spent her whole life either in her parents' mansion or on their private beach." Karen points out.
"Wow, that's sad and all but..." Don starts whilst looking through her file. "She sounds pretty awful."
"Typical, Don." Blaineley moans. "We finally get someone remotely interesting and you don't like her."
"I can't wait to see her breakdown." Chris adds.
The next files are passed around, they have "Connie Louise Cooper" printed on the front. Within is a photo of Connie fiddling with a video camera. She has a slight tan, dark blue eyes and medium length black hair that stops just above her shoulders with a teal beanie on top. She is dressed in a long sleeved purple top with a short sleeved black tee with a crescent moon on it over the top, as well as light blue three-quarter length jeans and a pair of pink converse.
"Connie makes her own movies and is a walking movie trivia machine." Karen says as the group skim Connie's file.
"A film buff? I hope there aren't too many nerds." Blainely gives a disgusted look.
"I hope she means some real classics and not something that came out ten years ago." Chris judges the teen he hasn't met.
"Ugh, like him." Blainely gestures to Chris.
They don't have long to look as the next files are soon passed around too. The front is labelled with the name "Saraphina Anne Wong".
"This next girl is Sara the bad girl." Karen introduces the next soon to be camper. "She's nicer than her track record suggests but I wouldn't put any money on her being a shoulder to cry on."
The photo in the file shows Sara looking unimpressed outside a large building with some other kids of varying ages. She is a petite fair skinned Asian girl with lean muscles and slight curves. Her eyes are a dark shade of brown and her long black hair is tied into a fishtail braid with purple tips.
"Now this kind of background is more my speed." Don says, recognising the potential for a sob story in Sara's file.
The next files are quickly passed out as the group find a rhythm. They open the files titled "Annabelle Berns" to a photo of a short and skinny girl with a mess of curly ginger hair stopping at her mid back. The pale girl is clearly talking to another girl only partially in frame. She has a dusting of freckles on her nose, cheeks and shoulders along with greyish brown eyes. Annabelle is wearing a large burgundy sweater with long sleeves covers a lot of her lower body as well, a pair of dark blue jeans, fuzzy white socks, and a pair of black and white running shoes. A friendship bracelet is just visible beneath her left sleeve.
"Anna's a total chatterbox." Karen says. "We're hoping she'll get on some of the tougher kids' nerves."
"That'll be hilarious but only if she doesn't get on mine." Chris adds looking a little worried about dealing with the current contestant.
Yet another set of files are handed out. These ones are labelled as "Samantha Dakota". The photo inside shows a girl who is begrudgingly having her photo taken. She is an average height with an hourglass shaped body and is rather muscular too. She has slightly messy pale blond her going just past her shoulders that matches her pale skin and silver-blue eyes. She has a black sweater decorated with violet bats on with a purple t-shirt barely visible beneath it. On her lower half are some simple blue jeans and plain black boots.
"Sam's your basic tomboy with some anger issues." Karen says as the hosts look at the file.
"Yeesh." Is all Don can say as he looks through.
"She's a lesbian too..." Karen starts.
"Unsurprisingly." Blaineley says under her breath.
"So she'll help us meet our diversity quota and bring in the LGBT market, along with a couple of the other girls who are bi. Oh and her twin brother applied too but I can't say if he's in or not." Karen continued.
"Oh I hope so." Chris perks up. "Imagine the drama of having twins forced to compete against each other!"
"And finally..." Karen hands out the last set of matching files. They have "Megan Melissa Maevis Matthews" printed on the front. "This is Megan. She's a reality TV expert. She thinks she has the perfect game plan and is probably the most desperate of the bunch for some fame."
"Hey Blaineley, your kindred spirits!" Don chuckles as the blonde woman rolls her eyes and opens the last file. Megan's photo has her lounging on her bed, feigning boredom. She has long dark brown hair with the fringe clipped back into the middle of her head. Her white skin matches her pale hazel eyes. She wears a mulberry coloured sleeveless crop top with white jeggings and a long cream overcoat she leaves unbuttoned and a pair of black flats. On her right wrist is a sapphire bangle.
"I will admit she sounds fun and I love her style." Blaineley says.
"Well that's the lot." Karen quickly stands up. "Study them and make sure you know everything. I'll call you as soon as the boys are chosen."
With that the producer makes her exit, leaving the three hosts with many unasked questions.
Author's Note
Congratulations to those who had their characters submitted. I still need more guys though. I have received 13 but 3 break the rules and will not adjust them. There are a couple others that I am unsure of as well. If you haven't submitted any yet, you can submit two male characters each. For those who haven't had their female characters selected, feel free to submit a male character.
Here is the full list of the girls.
1. Elsa - The Italian - 37KarsOnMars
2. Tori - The Business Woman - Gucci Mane LaFlare
3. Marlene - The Naturalist - Yosdave Alejandro
4. Erica - The Skater - TheRainbowShyGuy
5. Wyonetta - The Hockey Player - BaseballCapClyde
6. Beatrice - The Mermaid Fanatic - Alexneushoorn
7. Laila - The Snob - PurpleShadowManipulator
8. Connie - The Film Buff - Kuponut735
9. Sara - The Badgirl - xxPrincxssxx
10. Anna - The Chatterbox - Ergo Glast
11. Sam - The Tomboy - Waking Bad
12. Megan - The Reality TV Expert - TheRainbowShyGuy